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ecnarf

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  1. Oh, but seriously serious is so much better than agoraphobe... it reminds me more of Limblifter than MG.
  2. Ech... the Used. So corny. I do like some of Thursday's stuff, though, and I've never heard TBS.
  3. Funny thing, I was just listening to the radio - 72% of registered expatriate iraqis living in canada had voted. The figure on actual voting in Iraq was 60%.
  4. ecnarf

    Gmail?

    What size file can you send?
  5. Au contraire, young people may well be the easiest to get suckered into religions. I mean, I've been brought up Roman Catholic, and mentally got off that boat when I started thinking for myself, though being under my parents' roof, I don't have a choice to go to church or not. I mean, young kids are very impressionable, and if you go to Sunday school or a Catholic school (as I do), the academic texts you read on religion are very persuasive. The way the voice of the book talks to you, the way it purposely tries to get the idea in your head that you can't be a "good person" without belonging to a religion (and I'm not kidding about that), and the way it seems to "care" (i use that word loosely) as to whether or not you actually believe in God... it's disgusting. The way we were taught in religion class in elementary school, we were not even introduced to the idea that other religions exist, or that other people didn't believe in a God... when one kid asked our teacher in grade 3 about the public school across the street, the teacher replied "They believe that a different person created the universe." All in the name of the Bible, and perpetuating the Catholic church. Obviously, I've strayed from the line of discussion, but religion is a personal thing. People should have the free ability to go to a church and worship as they please. The way the Christian faith (all denominations) get kids to keep coming back isn't pretty. And having talked to other people about this, my experience wasn't exactly unique, and not specific to Roman Catholicism.
  6. It's not technically a search, it's a dog sniff. It's not intrusive, which is why the judges gave it the go-ahead, but it still amounts to a search. I'll see if I can find an article. EDIT: in response to the breathalyzer analogies, I think it's different. What's happening with the story I'm talking about, drug dogs are allowed to arbitrarily sniff inside cars when the car is pulled over for a traffic violation - sort of as a matter of procedure. When a police officer smells alcohol on your breath, there is reasonable suspicion of you being inebriated. With the R.I.D.E. programs, it's a similar situation, you're being arbitrarily pulled over, but drunk drivers are a serious danger, so I think that offsets it.
  7. Well, I've been kicking this question around in my head for a few days. I'm sure some of you have heard about a recent court ruling in the U.S. that states using sniffing dogs on routine traffic pullovers for speeding isn't considered an intrusive search, and doesn't violate the constitution. Personally, I find that a bit wrong. There's a bit of a line crossed when you can get pulled over for speeding, and you're getting searched for drugs (via the police dog) at the same time. So, I guess the question is if people have the "right" to break the law. I don't mean that in the sense that people have the right to murder, rape, steal, etc. I mean that in the sense of doing something that's against the law, but that doesn't affect other people - doing drugs, for example, drinking underage, things that you do to yourself. Personally, I think that they do. To that extent, getting caught is their own damn fault (and carrying drugs in your car isn't particularly smart either). Obvious, I'm a bit of a civil libertarian (and I do favour the legalization of some drugs), but I don't want to look like a complete hippie about this - laws need to be enforced, but I really think personal rights to privacy are being violated when you can be screened for drugs for being pulled over on the road. I do see the reasoning that these searches are not overly intrusive, but it's sort of like performing drug tests on people walking down the street. If police officers can perform a drug sniff on cars that are pulled over, what's to stop them from doing it on a parked car? Where's the line to be drawn?
  8. That commercial, with two old people complaining about the state of music. "Matthew Good Band... what's so good about Matthew?" But I first heard Hello Time Bomb on some crappy compilation disc I bought when I thought Blink 182 were "cool". I guess it didn't turn out all bad.
  9. Yeah, I've taken to watching it whenever I'm watching tv and it's on, and I like it. It's also funny to see him take rips at Hillary Duff, and other importantly unimportant news bits.
  10. Does their beer really taste so bad they have to dump it out?
  11. In no particular order... double life the inescapable us flight recorder from viking 7 deep six failing the rorshach test
  12. I'm willing to go beyond money.
  13. all I get for the site is a picture with a guy pouring beer on a sidewalk.
  14. MOOSiCB?
  15. He had already planned to go to europe, but was delayed by illness, which, had the trip not been delayed, probably wouldn't have resulted in the site being taken down.
  16. Limblifter, Fierceley Co-Dependent. Just got the CD today.
  17. Being a good person? I don't know. I once spent a whole chemistry period helping another girl with cyclic hydrocarbons. What would you know, she did better than me on the test a few days later. People have told me I'm the "nicest guy they know" (only a girl could say that), but at heart, I'm a real smartass, always snidely insulting people when I get the chance. In good humour, I guess. I guess being "nice" is being indifferent... helping out when people need it, and not being a real asshole the rest of the time.
  18. The whole design is on the website, where you can listen to the songs. I just bought the album today.
  19. Exactly. Furthermore, this isn't the place to discuss this, we've got a politics and debate forum for a reason.
  20. Dude, I don't even listen to radio...
  21. In a genetic sense, a criminal justice system doesn't make sense. Let's just kill whoever we think committed a crime. works for politicians and athletes They aren't really human, anyways.
  22. In a genetic sense, a criminal justice system doesn't make sense. Let's just kill whoever we think committed a crime.
  23. You can hear all the songs from their new album on the website...
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